"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

Descartes, Rene on common sense   

"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life!"

Dickinson, Emily on doctors
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily on dissent
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"The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible."

Dass, Ram on power   

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."

Paglia, Camille on anarchism
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"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself."

Saying, Zen on action
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"Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."

Marden, Orison Swett on action
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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

Shaw, George Bernard on action
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on democracy
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"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."

Adams, John on freedom
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."

Alexander The Great on grave
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"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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